In current strategic terms, as it turns out, a better characterisation of the standard
TLS (which are parasitic yet ubiquitous defects in glasses) is paramount for
high-technology developments and crucial to awaited breakthroughs. For example in
fields like the improved detection of gravitational waves [1]}, [2]},
the fabrication of coherent qubits for superconductor-based quantum computers
[3]}, and noise-reduction within quantum-information repeaters (quantum
memories) in fiber-glass optical transmission [4]}, [5]}, [6]}.
A better understanding of the atomic nature of the TS is therefore also long awaited
for [7]}.
